It's never been more important for our elected representatives to have at least a smidgen of a clue about technology and specifically computing. They need to be advised by impartial, highly knowledgeable people, not lobbyists who themselves are only lightly technical in nature. We've built the entirety of modern civilization on computers and computer networks, and there's absolutely no excuse to continue to send technically ignorant people to Congress. That's how we'll wind up losing our technical edge to other countries and, with it, a sizable portion of our economy. Oh wait, that might already be happening.

Full-on, no-nonsense, Net neutralityEnough said. This means no interference whatsoever on data traversing a network: no tiering, no compensated prioritization, no protection rackets, nothing more than today's status quo, though it seems that many ISPs are already playing shady games. The Internet needs to be free and unfettered from central controlling interests. Otherwise, it turns into a fragmented collection of quasi monopolies, kind of like the current ISP/content owner conglomerates.